Off To LA
Warren and his wife Beverly moved in 1966 to Los Angeles. As an assistant to Forrest J Ackerman, Warren came into contact with many major filmmakers-in-waiting who were also inspired by Ackerman, and he developed independent friendships with several of them.
He and Beverly became very active in the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, as well as being involved in many of the Los Angeles-centric science fiction conventions up to the 1980s. He and his friend Allan Rothstein were on the committee of the 1984 World Science Fiction Convention . Taking advantage of their knowledge of who was attending and the programming schedule, they wrote a murder mystery, "Fandom Is a Way of Death," that was set at the convention. Everyone in the story, except the detective Johnny Atlantis, were real people, including all the victims and the murderer. This was sold as a publication at the convention, with the solution to the case in a separate envelope. On the last day of the convention, the murderer was revealed and took a bow.
His 1968 short story "Death Is a Lonely Place" appeared in the first issue of Worlds of Fantasy, and he also scripted for the Warren comic book publications Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella.
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